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Native American Hoop Dancing

ang@goodroots.ca — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:34:24 +0000

Hoop dancing is as much a part of native heritage as is the teepee. Formal hoop dancing competitions have competitors using anywhere up to 30 hoops or more are held in various places around the world including Vancouver BC and Edmonton Alberta, but the most popular is in Phoenix Arizona. Dancers use the hoops to create shapes such as birds, snakes and butterflies while also incorporating unique footwork. World famous hoop dancers include Tony Duncan, Moontee Sinquah , Charles Denny and Alex Wells.

Award Winning Photography

ang@goodroots.ca — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:53:19 +0000

The winner for Portrait Photographer of the Year in Canada, as awarded by the Professional Photographers of Canada is John Beesley. Mr Beesley hung 4 prints this year at the convention in Regina Saskatchewan. His photography, including one from Malta, tells a story. “I always try to show a range of diversity” says the artist and his work shows it.

Have a look at his beautiful award winning photography

Craft Ideas For Old Fishing Equipment

beckygelber@comcast.net — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:30:03 +0000

Another idea is to hot glue bobbers and lures all over an old lamp base. I think the more the better on this project, totally covering the base. Of course the lamp size and your taste make a difference. If it’s a very large lamp or you just don’t have enough lures and bobbers you can hot glue solid bands, about 2 inches wide, of hemp rope or twine to fill in larger areas. A mobile like you see in babies rooms are fun and add an interesting art form to your fishing decor. I prefer to hang the fishing gear at different levels instead of all one length. Again I use twigs or sticks for this project’s “cross” to hang the lures, bobbers etc. from and fishing line to tie it all together.

Fishing Is Like Marketing

beckygelber@comcast.net — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:01:52 +0000

Marketing is not any different than fishing. If you are tossing out the wrong hook to the right fish, they are not going to bite. If you have the right fish and hook, and the wrong technique, maybe a prayer or two will work. The results might trickle now and then. Yet, not the results you need.

Trolling For Bass Fish

beckygelber@comcast.net — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:57:44 +0000

Trolling for bass another excellent technique that works best in large rivers or lakes that have long stretches of deep water with slow to moderate current. While trolling, bass fishing lures should remain in the water at all times. Try varying depths until desired results are achieved. Trolling is a relatively easier technique as compared to casting, and enables the amateur angler to cover more water thoroughly. Any of the bass fishing lures mentioned in this article can be trolled effectively.

Crab Fishing Is Also A Dangerous Job

beckygelber@comcast.net — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:37:06 +0000

The money is only the rosy side to the job. Crab fishing in Alaska is one of the most perilous of all jobs in the world. To fish for crabs in the glacial waters of the Arctic Ocean in sub-zero temperatures, with pounding waves thrashing on the deck and tossing the fishing boat treacherously and icy winds howling continuously, needs a stout heart and an able body. Furthermore, your work will involve negotiating the enormous crab pots and coils of line along the slippery deck.

Dieting Since The 5th Grade

ang@goodroots.ca — Mon, 28 May 2007 22:48:39 +0000

I had been dieting since I was in the 5th grade. I had been on a starvation diet when I was in my final year of high school and had lost 80 pounds from December until the summer when I graduated. I say I lost it because I surely found it again, and then more.

I had carried with me some of the product from that diet and began to use the last of it which lasted me about a week. I got very very ill. So ill in fact that my roommate were going to take me to the hospital if I didn’t do something for myself, or snap out of it. They joked that they’d get a forklift and cart me out of the house and to the hospital.

Being so sick, I essentially did a week long fast and dropped about 20 or 30 pounds. Not a healthy way to do it, but it was enough to support my initial weight loss decision and inspired me to continue to do more. Read the rest of this fascinating story about how I lost 300 pounds.